{"product_id":"gibson-les-paul-special-double-cut-2025-heritage-cherry","title":"Gibson Les Paul Special Double Cut 2025 - Heritage Cherry","description":"\u003cp\u003eGibson Les Paul Special Double Cutaway – Vintage Cherry, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a superb example of the 2025 Gibson Les Paul Special Double Cutaway in Vintage Cherry, a beautifully executed modern interpretation of one of Gibson’s most characterful designs. The Special Double Cut takes the essential ingredients of the late-’50s and early-’60s original and presents them in a wonderfully straightforward, player-focused instrument: solid mahogany, a set mahogany neck, rosewood fingerboard and a pair of Gibson P-90 Soapbar pickups. It is a guitar with very little between the player and the sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis particular example is in excellent condition and is only a few months old. It has seen just a small amount of careful use and is very close to new. We have given it a full workshop setup and it plays beautifully, with a lovely comfortable action and everything working exactly as it should. It comes complete with its original Gibson hard-shell case and all original paperwork. A fantastic opportunity to acquire a virtually new Gibson at a considerable saving over the cost of buying one new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe factory specification is wonderfully uncomplicated. The body is solid mahogany with the classic double-cutaway profile, giving excellent balance on the strap and superb access right up the fingerboard. The glued-in mahogany neck has Gibson’s comfortable SlimTaper profile and is paired with a bound rosewood fingerboard, 22 medium-jumbo frets and acrylic dot inlays. The 24.75\" scale length gives the guitar that familiar Gibson feel under the fingers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the other end, Gibson has fitted its Vintage Deluxe tuners with white buttons and a Graph Tech nut, while the strings anchor through the traditional wraparound bridge. The bridge is bolted directly into the mahogany body, contributing to the excellent sustain and direct acoustic response for which this design is known.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe real star of the show, however, is the pair of Gibson P-90 Soapbar pickups. These are wonderfully immediate and dynamic pickups, sitting somewhere between the clarity and bite of a traditional single coil and the thicker, more muscular character associated with a humbucker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bridge P-90 has plenty of attack and upper-mid presence, giving single-note lines real authority while retaining that unmistakable Gibson growl when you push the amplifier. It can be wonderfully articulate clean, but introduce some gain and it becomes aggressive, gritty and harmonically rich without losing definition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe neck pickup is warmer and rounder, with a beautifully vocal quality that works particularly well for blues, roots, rock and jazzier playing. It has enough clarity to prevent the sound becoming muddy, while the natural compression and midrange character of the P-90 give it plenty of substance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the middle position, the two pickups combine to produce a wonderfully open and balanced sound. Roll back the guitar volume and these pickups clean up exceptionally well; turn things up and they respond immediately to the player's touch. This is very much a guitar where your playing dynamics become part of the sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGibson's hand-wired control arrangement gives each pickup its own volume and tone control, with high-quality Orange Drop capacitors in the tone circuits. The result is a remarkably versatile instrument despite its deliberately simple appearance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFactory specification:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• 2025 Gibson Les Paul Special Double Cutaway\u003cbr\u003e• Vintage Cherry finish\u003cbr\u003e• Solid mahogany double-cutaway body\u003cbr\u003e• Mahogany set neck\u003cbr\u003e• SlimTaper neck profile\u003cbr\u003e• Rosewood fingerboard\u003cbr\u003e• Bound fingerboard\u003cbr\u003e• 22 medium-jumbo frets\u003cbr\u003e• Acrylic dot inlays\u003cbr\u003e• 24.75\" scale length\u003cbr\u003e• 43.05mm \/ 1.69\" nut width\u003cbr\u003e• Pair of Gibson P-90 Soapbar pickups\u003cbr\u003e• 2 volume \/ 2 tone controls\u003cbr\u003e• Hand-wired electronics\u003cbr\u003e• Orange Drop tone capacitors\u003cbr\u003e• Three-way pickup selector\u003cbr\u003e• Gibson Vintage Deluxe tuners with white buttons\u003cbr\u003e• Graph Tech nut\u003cbr\u003e• Wraparound bridge\u003cbr\u003e• Gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish\u003cbr\u003e• Original Gibson hard-shell case\u003cbr\u003e• Original paperwork\u003cbr\u003e• Excellent condition\u003cbr\u003e• Only a few months old\u003cbr\u003e• Full professional workshop setup\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Les Paul Special Double Cut has always been one of Gibson’s most honest and rewarding designs. It is lightweight in concept, beautifully balanced and completely focused on what matters: the player, the pickups and the amplifier. This particular 2025 example has the added attraction of being virtually new, professionally set up and ready to go.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA superb Gibson for the serious electric guitar player — direct, dynamic, hugely responsive and with those wonderful P-90 tones that can go from sparkling clarity to full-blooded overdrive simply by changing your touch.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gibson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57402528596343,"sku":"G4974","price":1299.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/2672\/6709\/files\/G4974_01.jpg?v=1787757896","url":"https:\/\/motomusic.co.uk\/products\/gibson-les-paul-special-double-cut-2025-heritage-cherry","provider":"MotoMusic","version":"1.0","type":"link"}